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METALLIC HARNESS AND BRIDLB LOOP. No. 255,709. 4 Patented Mar. 28,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W'ATTERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

M ETALLIC HARNESS AND BRIDLE LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,709, dated March28, 1882.

i Application filed December 29, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, JOHN WATTERs, of New York, in the county and State ofNew York, have invented an Improved Metallic Harness and Bridle Loop, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Figure l is a face view of the bottom plate of myimproved harnessloop.Fig. 2 is acrossscction of the same; Fig. 3, a side view of a portionthereof; Fig. 4, a top view of the boxloop that is attached to saidbottom plate; Fig. 5, a cross-section 0t said box-loop; Fig. 6, a topview of the complete harness-loop; Fig. 7, a cross-section. thereof; andFig. S,'a side view, partly in section, of'the same.

The object of this invention is to produce a harnessloop which shall bereadily attachable to harness and bridle, and which is to be puttogetherwhen partiallythstened on the harness; and tothisendtheinvention consistsincombining with a bottom plate that is stitched orotherwise fastened to the harness, and that has upwardly and inwardlyprojecting flanges, an upper box-loop which has outwardly-projectingflanges at its lower end that are adapted to slide into the groovesformed by the flanges of the bottom plate, and thereby, held tirmagainst up and down and lateral displacement. The-bottom plate is madeslightly longer than the box-loop, so that when the latter has beenplaced in position the flanges at the ends of the bottom plate areslightly depressed to lock the box-loop thereto.

1n the accompanying drawings, the letter A represents the bottom plate,and B the upper box-loop, of my improved harness-loop. The bottom plate,A, is provided with small holes a a, through which the thread that isused to stitch it to the harness or strapO can be passed; but instead offastening the said plate Ato the strap or harness by stitches, it may befastened by rivets projecting from it or by lugs or the like. The plateA has at its long edges up- -wardlyand inwardly projecting flanges 1),forming longitudinal grooves c, that are open at the placed withreference to the grooves c as'to fit in them when the box-loop is slidlongitudinally over the bottom plate, A, as shown in Fig. 7. In thisposition (showoin Fig. 7) the box-loop is by the flanges b preventedfrom being displaced vertically and laterally, but not longitudinally.To insure the final connection ot' the parts A and B, I make the bottomplate, A, slightly longer than the boX-loop B, as is indicated in Figs.6 and 8. When the box-loop has been slid in place on the bottom plate,A, so that the latter projects beyond both ends of the former, I crushor bend the ends of the flanges b downward, as indicated at e in Figs.6and 8, and thereby form obstructions against the ends of the flanges 01,thus preventing the longitudinal displacement in either direction of theloop B on the plate A.

Buckles may be fastened to the ends of the plate A, in which case theobstructing parts 6 on said plate are not required.

I do not broadly claim joining the upper partof a box-loop to the lowerplate by interlocking flanges, but

I do claim- 1. The combination of the box-loop B, havingoutwardly-projecting flanges d, with the bottom plate, A, having flangesb, forming grooves 0, adapted to receive the flanges d, said bottomplate being made longer than the loop B to allow the flanges I) to becrushed andbent down and form obstructions eagainst the ends of theflanges at, substantially as specified.

2. The plate A, having holes a and grooved flanges lnin combination withthe loop B, having ontwnrdly-projecting ungroovcd flanges d, as setforth.

This specification of my invention signed by me this 28th day ofDecember, 1881.

t J OHN WATT'ERS.

Witnesses WILLY G. E. SCHULTZ,

WILLIAM H. 0. SMITH.

